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  • The Douglass Century

    Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University

    by Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda Perrone ...
    Rutgers University’s Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major public research university in the United States. Although the number of women’s colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection

    An Annotated Selection

    by William Eilliot Griffis, Fernanda Perrone, Ross King, Soo Hur ...
    William Elliot Griffis (1843 – 1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the United States, he devoted himself to his research and writing on East Asia throughout his life. He authored 20 books about Japan and five books about Korea including, Corea: The Hermit Nation (1882), Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Rutgers Meets Japan

    A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century

    by James Mitchell Hommes, Fuji Takagi, Noriko Ochiai, Satoshi Shiozaki, Andrew Hamish Ion, Naoto Tsuji, Rui Kohiyama, Ryuhei Hosoya, Professor Benjamin Duke, Professor Koji Nakajima, Professor Joseph Michael Henning, Professor John Everett Van Sant ...
    Series series CERES: Rutgers Studies in History
    In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot Griffis, left for Japan to teach English and Science for three and a half years. The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Empress Dowager Cixi

    by Jung Chang ...
    A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Imperial Twilight

    The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

    by Stephen R. Platt ...
    As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

    China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

    by Stephen R. Platt ...
    A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

    Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

    by Jung Chang ...
    They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father of China', Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao's vice-chair.Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Haitian Vodou : An Introduction to Haiti's Indigenous Spiritual Tradition

    An Introduction to Haiti's Indigenous Spiritual Tradition

    by Mambo Chita Tann ...
    Deeply rooted in Haiti’s culture and held sacred by millions, Haitian Vodou is a joyous and profound ancestral practice descended from the Vodu priesthood of West Africa. This little-understood belief system is among the truest religions of the Americas—yet its essence has remained a mystery to outsiders.Written by a practitioner of the highest initiatory rank, Haitian Vodou is the only book that ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Perils of Interpreting

    The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

    by Henrietta Harrison ...
    A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more ... Read more

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  • Korean Messiah

    Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult

    by Jonathan Cheng ...
    FINALIST FOR THE 2026 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026 SO FAR • A landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity—a spectacular, penetrating account of the Hermit Kingdom“How do personality cults take hold? What happens when leaders mix politics and faith to demand immense sacrifices? Jonathan Cheng’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • When America First Met China

    An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Making of Modern China

    The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1368-1912)

    by Jing Liu ...
    Series Book 4 - Understanding China Through Comics
    The fourth volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's move to modernization!Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.The fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series The Making of Modern China, covers the stunningly ... Read more

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